Counting medals of the Russian sportsmen at the World cup in Ruhpolding and reading the comments of the biathletes and coaches, Biathlonrus.com decided to give the main page this time to the IBU cup. There are enough reasons – small town, which for the first time in history hosted the IBU cup, was lucky for the Russian team. Four out of five gold medals, sniper Ekaterina Iourieva, first victories of Alexey Slepov, famous guests and place of Ostrov(Eng-Island) at the sport map of Russia are in the photo story of Biathlonrus.com.

The Russian team placed third in the mixed relay at the IBU cup in Ostrov, Russia. Larisa Kuznetsova, Ekaterina Iorieva, Viktor Vasilyev and Timofey Lapshin fought for the team. The Norwegian team celebrated the victory with the German team finishing second.